Believes he has found a "savant" for FitzRoy in CD, whom he describes as grandson of Erasmus Darwin and "full of zeal and enterprize".

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Sep 1st

My dear Sir

I believe my friend Mr Peacock of Triny College
Cambe has succeeded in getting a ``Savant'' for you— A
Mr Darwin grandson of the well known philosopher and
poet—full of zeal and enterprize and having contemplated a voyage on his own
account to S. America

Let me know how you like the idea that I may go or recede in time | F B